Quotes About Ambiguity

one that none of us can see. We cannot know at last the effects of what we do, whether for good or ill.

one never lazes about more happily than when one has no idea where to start, in the face of all one has to do, and one never works more happily than when one actually has nothing on hand'.31 But that could hardly have been less true of him at just that moment. Not

don't know whether that would be the zenith or nadir of decadence

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty and this seemed to wear away something in him, always he felt unsure of what he wanted, what he thought, even what he felt. His

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

Thrown into the gutter, yet full of sense and personality. But life was that way. You couldn't tell what made personality, either in man or dog. Looking

By mindfully considering data not as stable commodities but as sources of ambiguity, we become more observant.

Turns out a missile is always a weapon, and a rocket sometimes isn't.

How can your worst nightmare also be your wildest dream?" -Maisie

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.

eso era lo que a mí me caía gordo de la vida carnal, no sé si te pasó, que a veces se acomodaba de tal manera que no entendías ni madres, a poco no

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

alone. A mixed-blood is seldom content in company: there's always something that casts a shadow on him, but in reality it's he who casts a shadow, like the thief and the treasure, which cast a shadow on one another.

She's no angel. He's no saint.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.

Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.

În tristete, totul are doua fete. Nu poti fi nici în iad si nici în rai, nici în viata si nici în moarte, nici fericit si nici nefericit. Un plîns fara lacrimi, un echivoc fara sfîrsit. Caci nu te izgoneste ea în aceeasi masura din aceasta lume, ca si din cealalta? Esti trist de totdeauna, nu de acum. Si acest totdeauna e toata lumea înainte de nasterea ta. Nu-i tristetea amintirea vremii în care n-am fost?

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.

Exist? idei care au oarece greutate doar dac? avem bunul-gust de a nu le aprofunda; de îndat? ce vrem s? intr?m în detalii, s? le explic?m, s? le justific?m, ele se n?ruie ÅŸi îÅŸi dezv?luie neantul.

A fi sau a nu fi? Nici una nici alta.

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